Thanks a million (actually five and half million)!
The past eleven months have been wildly exciting! We never dreamed when we started out that we’d get such huge support for our project from the community of Zooniverse volunteers – 5.5 million classifications in all! At times it’s been a struggle processing results fast enough to maintain a supply of new snippets for classification. Once the final workflows are finished, we need to do some final processing before supplying data to the Office for National Statistics for release later in the year. We’ll do our best to publicise the release when we have further details.
Thanks again for all your support.
Help to rescue a treasure trove of detailed information about past society in England and Wales in this pioneering statistical archaeology project
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About 1961 Census
Please give a few minutes of your time to help our statistical archaeology project rescue uniquely detailed information produced as an unpublished output from the 1961 Census for England and Wales from the unusable and insecure formats in which it's been trapped for over 50 years. The information is being transformed into integrated digital data to make it available for analysis using current tools and techniques for the first time.
The Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Research Lab (PRImA) at The University of Salford has worked with the Office for National Statistics to develop techniques to automate the accurate recognition and retrieval of statistical information from print and digital images as far as possible. A small proportion of errors remain, and are detected by our quality assurance processes. It's these residual errors that we're asking Zooniverse volunteers to help us correct in this project.
As Zooniverse projects go, the brainpower requirements of this one are pretty minimal - just read and enter single values highlighted in a series of small images. Early participants have even reported that taking part can be very relaxing! It's possible to make a significant contribution just a few minutes at a time, so please keep the project bookmarked.
Further information about the project and its techniques can be found in the About section. Information on the project's progress will be updated in the Results section.